Washington, July 15.
ATORS Charles O. Andrews of Florida, Guy M. Gillette of Towa, Prentiss Brown of Iowa and Edwin Johnson of Colorado to-day called on President Roosevelt and were believed to have urged the withdrawal of the bill to reorganize the Federal judiciary or to re-commit it to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Any doubt that President Roosevelt was continuing his battle for the enlargement of the Supreme Court was dissipated to-day when the President addressed a let fter to Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, declaring. "The fi ight for the Supreme Court bill will continue.'
The President said he would "not abandon any reform of the judicial processes at this session of Congress." He. indicated, however, that there possibility of compromising the. issue.
"At no time," he said, "have 1 Insisted that the method or methods originally proposed in the bill be Sacred or final, except to point out that action was an immediate necessity, The President's letter criticized underground activity on the part of ]some opponents of the judiciary bill, which he said was continuing despite an ostensible truce called as result of Senator Joseph, Robinson's death, "Since his (Robinson's) untimely death," he wrote Senator Barkley, had hoped with you that at least until his funeral, decent respect for his Jmemory would have deferred dis-Jeussion of political and legislative matters. Therefore it is with regret that T find advantage has been taken Jof what in all decency should be a period of mourning."
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the Democratic oppon-Jents of the bil, called the President's, etter a political mistake, cannot believe President Roose-Jvelt could make political capital out lof a tragedy like this, but if it is rue, he must have accepted bad
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